A museum which provided information about the experiences of the Palestinians could be a positive addition to the area, but hopefully it will provide more complete and accurate information than that given in the recent article published article in The Press, “Palestinian museum, celebrating art and culture, to open in Woodbridge.”

For example, when Faisal Saleh, executive director of Palestine Museum U.S., referred to all attempts to bring about a two-state solution having failed, he was being both accurate and misleading, since he omitted any mention of the reason for the failures: the repeated rejection of any such solution by Arab leaders, including 1937, 1947, 2000, 2001 and 2008. Indeed, PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas has vociferously rejected the very core of that solution, two states for two peoples.

Saleh also misleads when he refers to a people who “have suffered over almost the last 100 years.” A hundred years ago, the ancestors of those who today call themselves Palestinians were insisting the opposite. In 1948, the only Palestinians who lost their homes were the Jews, all of whom were kicked out of their homes in the portions of the Land of Israel captured by Egypt and Transjordan.

Hopefully, the museum will shed light on the disgrace of millions of Palestinian Arabs, only a handful of whom are actually refugees, being forced by their own brethren in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon and even by their own governments ruling Gaza and the Palestinian Authority, to live in decrepit refugee camps.